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I have lived in a writing and painting set, where we talked nonsense till it went to our heads, and we half believed it. And, to tell you the truth, the presence of women always sets me off. I am a humbug; I do not know Gaelic, but I mean to work away at my drama for all that. This kind of shock against the realities of life sobers a fellow. Blake spoke simply, in an unaffected, manly way.
Jakob von Liegnitz continued to look down at the smaller man in wonder. "Lieber Gott" he said finally. "I only took her out a couple of times. I knew he liked her, but " He stopped. "The guy must be off his bearings." "I smelled liquor on his breath," said Mike. "Let's get him down to his stateroom and lock him in until he sobers up. I'll have to report this to the captain.
It sobers and clarifies human thinking a little, perhaps, to reflect on how thin a line separates the sublime and the ridiculous, the saint and the sensualist, the martyr and the fool, the genius and the freak.
For even as men feed upon its beauty, so they have found it necessary to discover something which should enable them to live above and unafraid of its material and gigantic power. We have already seen how there appears to be a cosmic hostility to human life which sobers indeed those who are intelligent enough to perceive it.
"That's all he's good for." Then I heard the little Irish groom say, "I'll give you ten bob for the dog." And another voice says, "Ah, don't you do it; the dog's same as dead mebbe he is dead." "Ten shillings!" says the Master, and his voice sobers a bit; "make it two pounds and he's yours." But the pals rushed in again. "Don't you be a fool, Jerry," they say.
An' the hay-mower wus to be got ready fer hayin'. She mostly drove that herself, an' I 'lows I wus glad." Arizona paused and took a fresh chew. Then he went on. "Guess you ain't never got hitched?" Tresler denied the impeachment. "Not yet," he said. "Hah! Guess it makes a heap o' diff'rence." "Yes, I suppose so. Sobers a fellow. Makes him feel like settling down." "Wal, maybe."
We can’t be wise all at once; I had my follies once, as you may have had yours. It’s natural you should grow more attached to things as they are,—things as they are, you know,—as time goes on. Marriage, and the preparation for marriage, sobers a man.
For General Turner was but passing the time in Maam till by favour promised a foreign office was found for him elsewhere. "And when the office comes," said he, "then I leave my girl. It is the one thing that sobers me." "Not here! not here!" she cried, alarm in eye and tone. So he found, for the first time, her impatience with the quiet of Maam.
"All very fine sentiment very fine stuff and nonsense, madam; the young man is a little wild somewhat lavish in expenditure and for the present not very select in the company he keeps; but he is no fool, as they say, and we all know how marriage reforms a man, and thoroughly sobers him down." "Often at the expense, papa," she replied with tears, "of many a broken heart.
"Lord sakes!" she exclaimed. "Be that the drum already? What a whirl one does live in! and if there's one thing I hate more'n another, 'tis to be fussed." "What about the children, ma'am?" "The children? . . . Gone on this half-hour, I should hope. 'Beida's a good gel enough, when once ye've coaxed her into her best things. It sobers her you can't think.
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